02/20/2026
Did you know we are 3rd-generation beekeepers? 🐝🍯
This all started way back in the 1940s with Randy’s dad, Howard Sr.
For years, as a boy walking to a one-room schoolhouse, Howard would get there early in the winter ❄️ to light the stove so the younger children would be warm. His teacher was a beekeeper, and after years of him showing up, she gave him a swarm of bees.
That’s how this began. 🐝
When Howard got older, Randy would run across the road to help him lift honey supers and work through honey extraction. Sticky hands, heavy boxes, long summer days. ☀️ In the summer, Howard sold honey right from the front lawn. Nothing fancy — just jars of honey and a handwritten sign.
Eventually, Howard passed the hives down to his son, for helping him all those years.
When Randy and I were newlyweds 💛, he used his construction skills to build us a honey stand at the end of our driveway. I made soaps and salves. We brought in fresh produce from our garden. And of course… we sold our honey.
Then came the next generation. 🥰
When our daughter Heather was little, she used to take an observation beehive that her father built into her classroom and teach the other children about bees. She did that for years! After her, her brother Trent carried on that same tradition.
Now they’re both in university 🎓, and when they’re home, they help with extraction and bottling — just like their dad once did.
Three generations.
Same bees.
Same work ethic.
Same family. 🐝💛
And now that Randy is older than dirt 😂… pretty soon we’ll be passing this on to our children — who are no longer children — and hopefully one day watching them teach their own families.
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✨ A few fun bee facts:
🐝 Honeybees don’t like the color black — so avoid wearing dark colors around them.
🐝 They won’t sting you if you stay calm and hold still. They sense agitation. Flapping and screaming does NOT make them feel safe.
🐝 One of my favorite things to do when we find a swarm is to walk right up and smell them. It smells like ambrosia.
🐝 Honey is supposed to crystallize — that’s natural! It happens faster between 50°F and 59°F.
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Thank you for shopping at our little Log Cabin 🪵 — built by Randy’s own hands — and for supporting a honey farm that’s been in our family since the 1940s.
From our hive to your home. 🍯🐝💛
